The Wanderer

By Fritz Leiber

Book Overview

This Hugo Award-winning disaster epic from the Science Fiction Grand Master "ranks among [his] most ambitious works" (SFSite). The Wanderer inspires feelings of pure terror in the hearts of the five billion human beings inhabiting Planet Earth. The presence of an alien planet causes increasingly severe tragedies and chaos. However, one man stands apart from the mass of frightened humanity. For him, the legendary Wanderer is a mere tale of bizarre alien domination and human submission. His conception of the Wanderer bleeds into unrequited love for the mysterious "she" who owns him. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812544250
• ISBN13: 9780812544251
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Assoc Llc
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Up in the sky! It's a . . . giant planet?

I think Leiber is more well known for a certain fantasy series involving a pair of thieves than his SF work, although he has done some interesting tales. I wasn't even aware that this story existed, let alone that it had won a Hugo award, until they reissued it some years back. And for its time it must have been groundbreaking, a big globe-spanning disaster novel in the style that people like Niven and Pournelle would eventually...

A wonderful sci-fi/disaster book

While everyone's eyes are turned to the skies to watch a lunar eclipse, a planet appears out of nowhere. At first, people are intersted in this new planet, then the devastating earthquakes and tidal changes begin as the Wanderer, as many have named the planet, begins threatening the Moon.This engrossing novel catalogs the catastrophic events following the Wanderer's appearance through the eyes of many people instead of focusing...

One of the best

This is simply one of the best books of Leiber. It is poetic, filled with entrancing images, beautiful cats, utterly bizarre situations. It was one of the first to use the "mosaic" form of writing, where several different plots are being exposed simultaneously (a later example is John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar). If you like to dream, read it, you 'll love it.